Living Memory and Historical Practice: A Personal Tale

Personal Practice LIVER TRANSPLANTS FROM LIVING DONORS

In the west majority liver transplantation is from deceased donors. In the Far East most liver transplant is actually done from living related donors. In the past, when experience with hepatectomy was limited, liver transplantation did not progress because of lack of cadaveric donors. With hepatectomy becoming a safe operation, liver transplant from living donors is a good alternative. Although...

Personal and Historical Perspectives

Frederick Akbar Mahomed was an Englishman of mixed Indian and Irish descent who made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure in a short professional life from 1872 to 1884. He was strongly influenced by the previous work of Richard Bright on kidney disease at his own hospital (Guy's Hospital in London) and by the contemporary pathological studies of Gull and Sutton on arte...

Dendritic Arbors: A Tale of Living Tiles

What governs the shape and size of a neuron's dendritic arbor? Part of the answer lies in the rules that govern interactions between dendrites. Interesting new insights into these rules have come from two recent studies on the embryonic sensory system of Drosophila.

A living fossil tale of Pangaean biogeography.

The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to continental split or more recent trans-oceanic dispersal. For organisms exhibiting a vicariant biogeographic pattern-achieving their current distribution by riding on the plates of former supercontinents-this view is largely inspired by the belief...

Living in a Historical Neighborhood: Challenges, Opportunities and Threats, Case Study: Oudlajan Neighborhood in Tehran